A(nother) Huge and Delayed Thanks to David Spencer!

So apparently back in February of 2014 David Spencer, who had this particular article republished elsewhere on this site also had it republished on the Guardian. I have no idea why I never noticed this before but it’s absolutely huge that Abolish Work even got a quick mention on such a big name site.

This also explains why my picture of John Stuart Mill is one of the first ones (the fifth to be more precise) you see on a Google image search (I was curious, okay?) and why my article on John Stuart Mill and work consistently gets hits.

I just happened to notice that in my statistics today I got a few hits from the Guardian and figured someone in the comment section just briefly mentioned it. Apparently it was a much bigger deal than that!

Here is the specific section of the article in case you are curious, lazy or were having trouble finding it for some reason:

Yet another advocate of shorter work time was JS Mill. He dismissed the “gospel of work” proposed by Thomas Carlyle in part because it drew a veil over the real costs of work, including slave work that Carlyle sought to defend. Instead, Mill advocated a “gospel of leisure”, arguing that technology should be used to curtail work time as far as possible. This stress on technology as a means to shorten work time was later to feature in Bertrand Russell’s 1932 essay, “In Praise of Idleness”.

I’ve got a few projects keeping me busy this week but I’ll try to return to semi-regular posting before the week is over.